National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2004-0006

Overview

Multiple buffer overflows in Gaim 0.75 and earlier, and Ultramagnetic before 0.81, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via (1) cookies in a Yahoo web connection, (2) a long name parameter in the Yahoo login web page, (3) a long value parameter in the Yahoo login page, (4) a YMSG packet, (5) the URL parser, and (6) HTTP proxy connect.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0 incomplete approximation):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#871838

Name: VU#871838

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/871838

US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#527142

Name: VU#527142

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/527142

US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#503030

Name: VU#503030

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/503030

US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#444158

Name: VU#444158

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/444158

US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#371382

Name: VU#371382

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/371382

US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#297198

Name: VU#297198

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/297198

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2004:032

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-032.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://ultramagnetic.sourceforge.net/advisories/001.html

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://ultramagnetic.sourceforge.net/advisories/001.html

External Source: MISC

Name: http://security.e-matters.de/advisories/012004.html

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://security.e-matters.de/advisories/012004.html

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2004:045

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-045.html

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2004:033

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-033.html

External Source: SUSE

Name: SuSE-SA:2004:004

Hyperlink:http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2004_04_gaim.html

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-434

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-434

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200401-04

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200401-04.xml

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10222

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10222

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20040126 Advisory 01/2004: 12 x Gaim remote overflows

Type: Advisory; Exploit

Hyperlink:http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=107513690306318&w=2

External Source: SGI

Name: 20040201-01-U

Hyperlink:ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20040201-01-U.asc

External Source: XF

Name: gaim-http-proxy-bo(14947)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/14947

External Source: XF

Name: gaim-urlparser-bo(14945)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/14945

External Source: XF

Name: gaim-yahoopacketread-keyname-bo(14943)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/14943

External Source: XF

Name: gaim-login-value-bo(14941)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/14941

External Source: XF

Name: gaim-login-name-bo(14940)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/14940

External Source: XF

Name: gaim-yahoowebpending-cookie-bo(14939)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/14939

External Source: SLACKWARE

Name: SSA:2004-026

Hyperlink:http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2004&m=slackware-security.361158

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1008850

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1008850

External Source: BID

Name: 9489

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9489

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 3732

Hyperlink:http://www.osvdb.org/3732

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 3731

Hyperlink:http://www.osvdb.org/3731

External Source: MANDRAKE

Name: MDKSA-2004:006

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:006

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20040127 Ultramagnetic Advisory #001: Multiple vulnerabilities in Gaim code

Hyperlink:http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=107522432613022&w=2

External Source: CONECTIVA

Name: CLA-2004:813

Hyperlink:http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000813

External Source: FULLDISC

Name: 20040126 Advisory 01/2004: 12 x Gaim remote overflows

Hyperlink:http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2004-01/0994.html

External Source: SGI

Name: 20040202-01-U

Hyperlink:ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20040202-01-U.asc

US Government Resource: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:818

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:818

Type: Tool Signature

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:818

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10222

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10222

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:818

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:818